Show 292 - *David Dimbleby Live*
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
This is a broadcasting legend as you've never heard him before. David Dimbleby is as thoughtful and incisive as you'd imagine, but he's also devilishly hilarious. Finally able to say what he really thinks, he delivers his analysis of politics, broadcasting, the BBC, the monarchy and pyjamas in that familiar voice. This is crammed with great stories about interviewing titans like Thatcher and Blair, as well as the reality of hosting election night TV and Question Time. It's one of the funniest and most fun episodes of the show ever recorded.
Buy David's book 'Keep Talking' here: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/david-dimbleby-2/keep-talking/9781399702423/
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Forthcoming guests include:
14 Nov: Jake Berry
5 Dec: Rachel Reeves
19 Dec: Christmas Special including music from MP4
23 Jan: Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel
6 March: Eddie Izzard
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political party. This episode features a titan of British and |
| 0:16.1 | political broadcasting David Dimbleby. Whatever you were expecting this to be like, I guarantee |
| 0:21.8 | it will completely exceed your very high expectations. This is such a special evening with a man |
| 0:27.4 | who has all the authority you would expect and all the incisive analysis that he would |
| 0:33.4 | expect. Just so thoughtful and just watching him think and speak is mesmerising but also I mean |
| 0:41.5 | you may get a sense of this in the recording. So physical like he's up and out of his seat all the |
| 0:47.8 | time. He really acts things out when he's telling a story. He's physically reliving it. Now that |
| 0:52.3 | does create a bit of an issue because occasionally his microphone does catch on his jacket just because |
| 0:57.0 | he just stipulates and moves so much. So I do try and rectify that. We've tried to reduce the noise of |
| 1:01.6 | that but just a bit of a warning. Any sort of ruffling and popping sounds were the inevitable effect of |
| 1:08.0 | David Dimbleby sheer comedic physicality. This is a real gem before we come on to just this |
| 1:15.8 | tree of an episode. My future guests at the political party include on Monday the 14th of November |
| 1:22.1 | in just a few days time. Obviously it was meant to be Matt Hancock but he's in the jungle. So we are |
| 1:26.2 | going to rearrange that. If you've got a ticket you can have a refund or you can keep your seat for |
| 1:32.2 | Jake Berry who as you will know it has already caused a whole load of fuss and it's been very open |
| 1:40.5 | and very honest about some of his colleagues in the situation that he found in government and a whole |
| 1:44.6 | load of things. So the 14th of November this coming Monday with a former chair of the Tory party Jake |
| 1:50.3 | Berry is not to be missed. That will be incredible. On the 5th of December my guest is the Shadow |
| 1:56.0 | Chancellor Rachel Reeves at the moment heading for the treasury in the next couple of years. On |
| 2:00.7 | the 19th of December it's the Christmas special with some very special guests about to be confirmed |
| 2:05.4 | following me on Twitter at map 4 to find out live music from MP4 the cross party parliamentary |
| 2:10.4 | rock band on the 23rd of January my guest is Emily Maklist and John Soaple on the 6th of March |
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